8th Annual Legislative Advocacy Workshop and Summit Big Success

For the eighth year, legislators and their aides joined the Human Services Coalition and the Nonprofit Chamber of Palm Beach County, for the Legislative Summit where they received the Green Book filled with health and human services legislative priorities. They take the book to Tallahassee during the session to refer to the priorities selected through our consensus process. More than 65 health and human services organization representatives met with the delegation members and briefly provided them with overviews of the issues in six areas: Children & Youth; Disabilities; Elders; Health; Homeless/Hunger/Housing; and Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

The Human Services Coalition and Nonprofit Chamber of Palm Beach County offer every nonprofit health and human services organization and stakeholders the opportunity to be part of the legislative process. To develop the Green Book, which contains the top two priorities in six areas – Children and Youth, Disabilities, Hunger/Homelessness/Housing, Mental Health & Substance Abuse, and Elders – health and human services providers are asked to submit priorities. Later, any providers who wish to, participate in a workshop where two top priorities in each area are selected. All are compiled into the Legislative Green Book which is presented to legislators at the summit. The legislators take the books to Tallahassee and refer to them regularly during the session.

​No matter how large or small your nonprofit is, you have an equal opportunity to get your needs heard. If you would like to become part of this process and haven’t been in the past, please email npcpbc@gmail.com to be added to the notification list.

Nonprofits are a major segment of the economy – the third largest employer in the United States. We bring $40 billion into our respective states. And, yet, for many years, we had no real impact on the legislative process. The Legislative Advocacy Initiative here in Palm Beach County is changing that – it gives YOU a louder voice in advocating for your organization and for your clients and legislators are listening.

We Are Better Together!

Forward-thinking nonprofit leaders like yourselves found an urgent need to create a space where leadership of nonprofit organizations could meet, share, and unify for a common cause – proving our value to Palm Beach County in both human and financial terms. This is your Chamber where your concerns, your triumphs and your advocacy issues gather a stronger voice through the support of your colleagues.

If you haven’t joined, you should! This is a unique organization and a unique opportunity for all of us to spend two hours a month talking with each other, hearing from experts on subjects that can help our organizations thrive, creating collaborative relationships, learning from each other, sharing ideas, developing advocacy around issues that affect us mutually, and just getting to know each other. So, don’t lose another minute. Join us now. Just fill out the form.

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